Fun Times at the ER

Oh the fun weekend we have had at our house.

If you plan to visit may I suggest a hazmat suit.
Or just stay away for your own good.

I have been fighting this "thing" for a month.
I really thought it was allergies.
But Friday it was so bad that I just wanted to go to sleep and not wake up.
However I couldn't sleep because I couldn't stop coughing.
If I lay down it is so much worse. So no sleep for me.

My body hurts all over.
My head feels like a basketball, my eyes are tearing all the time, my ears hurt, my neck hurts, the headache is mind numbing, my throat is so sore that I think the proper term is raw and if that isn't enough my eyes are puffy and  my teeth hurt. WTH?

But been plugging through. Sudafed helps but I don't want to take it because it does counter act my thyroid medication. So I haven't been taking it a lot. Besides it only takes the edge off it doesn't make me feel great.

Last week Rick said his toe was hurting him. I said, "is it the gout pain? should you start your regimen now?"  He said, "No I don't think that its gout this time. It feels different this time."
You see he has gout in his big toe on his right foot. When he gets the tingling feeling start he begins this regimen 1 tsp of baking soda and water every 1/2 hour. Also he begins eating cherries. Oh he eats cherries. He also spends a lot of time in the bathroom. But it stops the gout from coming on full blown and within 24-48 hrs it is gone.

I suggested he start the regimen just in case it is gout. We have cherries frozen just for this occasion. He said no. Guess who has a full blown painful case of gout. It is so bad he can't get his foot into a shoe.  It is so bad this time for the first time of his life it has moved up his leg to make his ankle double in size. Walking is pure torture. He has never had it this bad before because he does his regimen.

Rick is a bad patient. Oh my is he a pain in the ass when he has pain or feels badly. I feel terrible but I don't act like he does. I think this is a man/woman thing. We feel like shit and keep on truckin'. I still do laundry, work, walk the dog, cook, clean up etc. He whines. He moans. He whines some more. Honestly men are such babies. I do realize that gout is a real MF as his doctor termed it.
But honestly he's a pain in the ass with a hang nail.

Saturday I suggested since our doctor is on vacation to go to urgent care or the new ER a few blocks from our home. He said, "no, I'm dealing with this"  No mister you aren't and it's starting to kill me.
But I say nothing and hope it gets better so he doesn't end up in the ER because I hurt him.

Sunday he wakes to it being larger and worse. He is fragile and I take advantage of him and tell him to go to the ER. He does just that. No arguments, he just goes. Finally.
They gave him a couple of shots and an assortment of medications and sent him home.

He came home to a coughing wife who he so kindly told, "You look horrible."
Thanks honey, let me step on your foot.

As the day went on the coughing was worse. I decided to eat some frozen grapes because I was hungry and everything else hurt. The cold grapes sounded good. I actually 'burned' the roof of my mouth from the frozen grapes. Great! So now everything hurt to eat  - my throat and the roof of my mouth. I smashed ice and just sucked on ice. yipee.

At one point I was coughing and hacking so much that Rick told me to go the ER. I said, "I am not an emergency I'll call the dr.'s office tomorrow."  He nagged until I went.
I have strep throat, sinusitis, and of course this cough. Great.
I have antiboditics and cough medicine that the dr. tells me will knock me out and stop the coughing.
That actually sounds good about now.

I left the dr's and headed to Walgreens. I sat there and waited for all my Rx's when a family came in for a flu shot. The pharmacist told him it would be 15 minutes because he had to fill some rx's first.
They said okay. The mom sat down and pulled out her phone. She never took her eyes off her phone.
Her 3 bratty loud sons took over the whole pharmacy area. They were on the floor with cars, throwing them across the floor and causing others to have to stop or walk over them. At one point they had their car go into an aisle as an older woman was walking. If the person she was with had not grabbed her arm she would have fallen. The mother never looked up or away from her phone.The father had yelled at them once and one of the kids kicked him. He got up and left. I never saw him again. The mom never looked up from her phone.
When the one child hit me the third time I told him that this was not the place to play with his cars. He stuck his tongue out at me.  These kids proceeded to knock over a display in the waiting area, the mother never looked away from her phone. They climbed over it and threw their cars into the mess they made. They just took over and were brats.

Finally my name was called and I went to check out. The woman checking me out made a comment about the brats. I said, "Oh I think they are what we call birth control." She said, "I'd like to go over and rip that phone out of their mothers hand"  I laughed and said, "I would pay to see that!"
She and I laughed and I walked over the brats and left the store.

I told Rick this story when I got home and he said, 'well perhaps the karma will be that mom will get what you have" That made me laugh. But I think it's worse for her if her kids have it, she may have to put down her damn phone and be a mom.
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Since I wrote the above post I now have laryngitis. Lovely for a person who answers the phones all day. Rick left an office voicemail stating I had this and to email me at the following.....so no rest for the self employed.